Soteria Berne: an innovative milieu therapeutic approach to acute schizophrenia based on the concept of affect-logic.

The Soteria-concept. Theoretical bases and practical 13-year-experience with a milieu-therapeutic approach of acute schizophrenia.

The concept of affect logic: an integrative psycho-socio-biological approach to understanding and treatment of schizophrenia.

In this article, the psycho-socio-biologically integrative concept of affect-logic, and its relevance for a comprehensive understanding and therapy of schizophrenia, is briefly presented. This concept has been developed by the author over the past 20 years, on the basis of the literature, of clinical experience and his own research into long-term evolution, rehabilitation, effects of milieu-the...

Commentary on the Soteria project: misguided therapeutics.

In The Divided Self (1965), R.D. Laing made an important contribution to phenomenology and inspired a generation of wrongheaded thinking about the treatment of schizophrenia. The Soteria House project, initiated by Loren Mosher on his return from a visit to Laing's Kingsley Hall, was based on a concept of schizophrenia as an existential crisis to be resolved at a personal and interpersonal leve...

A systematic review of the Soteria paradigm for the treatment of people diagnosed with schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND The "Soteria paradigm" attempts to support people diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders using a minimal medication approach. Interest in this approach is growing in the United Kingdom, several European countries, North America, and Australasia. AIMS To summarize the findings from all controlled trials that have assessed the efficacy of the Soteria paradigm for the treatme...

Treatment of acute psychosis without neuroleptics: two-year outcomes from the Soteria project.

The Soteria project (1971-1983) compared residential treatment in the community and minimal use of antipsychotic medication with "usual" hospital treatment for patients with early episode schizophrenia spectrum psychosis. Newly diagnosed DSM-II schizophrenia subjects were assigned consecutively (1971 to 1976, N = 79) or randomly (1976 to 1979, N = 100) to the hospital or Soteria and followed fo...